Example Sentences

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And now it feels like the whole nation has repressed it, has refused to acknowledge how bad it was.

From Salon • Jan. 4, 2025

First as a dutiful daughter, then as a wife, mother and teacher, Nancy has repressed her own desires her entire life; in less capable hands, she’d come off as pinched or pathetic.

From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2022

“Song of Back and Neck” tells the story of a paralegal who has repressed so much frustration that his anger has manifested in the form of chronic back and neck pain.

From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2018

When he sparks an attraction with a man in a bar, he decides to explore his feelings, which he has repressed in the past.

From The Guardian • Feb. 7, 2016

The deceiver who has repressed the consciousness of deceit and become a Dissociate.

From Spiritualism and the New Psychology An Explanation of Spiritualist Phenomena and Beliefs in Terms of Modern Knowledge by Culpin, Millais